Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
Be that self which one truly is.
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
Sanity is a madness put to good uses.
My specialty is detached malevolence.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Thought is free.